The Glory Of Heartbreak

We have romanticized heartbreak for too long....

Turned it into an experience that marks maturity.

But these wounds are not beautiful. No matter how pretty the words we write them with are.
It is not a fad. It is not a marker of life growth. You see poetry on heartbreak and you tell him it's beautiful. But he used blood for ink, and his scars for the paper.



He does not want anyone to go through his pain.  He writes as a form of treatment. Incision and drainage for the parts still damaged.

But you judge others naive for not having suffered. As if it is a sin to have lived in happiness.
The world is making bad experiences look good, and it's become a competition about who has had the worst.

"You don't even know what happened to me, don't talk o, your own is even better"

We wear it like a badge of honor. We believe it makes us "deep". Anyone without misery simply "hasn't learned". Just look - at the world we are creating. Where, if you do not have scars, then you are not yet beautiful.

Savagery is the new cool.

We laugh at others to put them down. Are we so unable to rise, that we don't feel high unless others come low?

Cuss words are the new vernacular. "FU" is now colloquial. Technology has enabled us to continuously bring out the darkest parts of ourselves. Behind a monitor. Behind a screen. Where we paint darkness into rainbows; and the demons in us are entertained.

What a sad thing to be proud about.

Not the overcoming of pain and scars, but the "earning" of it. We give grades for misery now. A++ to the girl with the broken heart. Imagine. Instead of helping them heal, we idolize their haemorrages. "What a beautiful dark red you have in your veins".

Now we all have a story to tell. And damn. We just can't wait to tell it.

It's the 21st century.
Where there's no party quite like a "pity party". And we have evolved from saying "broken pieces can be beautiful" to "The only beautiful pieces are the broken ones". I mean, what do people that aren't broken have to say anyway right?

But we don't say it out loud. Hush. It's a sin to be happy. Be loud with the screams that crack the windows of your soul.

If nobody hears you, scream a little louder. Your microphone is your keyboard, and your speaker is all of social media.

And they tell you it's normal to scream. They promise the screams will come whether you want them to or not. Now it's an art form. Who can scream the loudest? Who can scream the best? Who can talk most beautifully of the scars inside their chest?


Love, Stars, and a non-glass heart
...Let's not aim to be broken.


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